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- Patented Oct. 30, 1928.

UNITED STATES,

VPIATE 1,689,612 N OFFICE.-

JOHN M. YOUNG, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORTO AMERICAN CAN COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

CONTAINER.

Application filed December '4, 1924. Serial No. 753,763.

My present invention relates to tearing strip cans and has for its main object the provision of a practical and inexpensive hinge construction whereby the'upper portion of the container may be used in conjunction with a'n interior collar to provide a hinged cover for use after the tearing strip has been removed. Y

The invention is, perh'aps, particularly adapted to tobacco cans of the flattened or pocket shape, in which a. combined hermetic and-hinge coverarrangement is especially desirable since the ordinary hinge cover, though very convenient. for use while the contents are being consumed,does not afford suflicient protection against drying out of the tobacco.

during storage and shipment of thecans.

In accordance-with the invention, the can, when packed, is hermetically closed and when received by the customer,'is adapted to" be opened by removal of-the tearing strip, whereupon the upper portion of the container becomes usuable as a hinge cover by reason of the construction provided by the. invention.

Numerous other objects'and advantages of the invention will be apparent asit is better understood from the following description,

which, taken. in connection with the accont,

panying drawings, discloses a preferred embodiment thereof. Referring. to the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tobacco can in which my invention is embodiedj Fig. 2 is a partial perspective View there- '35 of with the tearing strip removed and the interior collar broken away for better illus tration; and J F ig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view, taken substantially upon the section line 3-3 lustrative purposes only, a preferred form of my invention, in which the reference oharac ter 11 indicates a container body closed by 5 means of the usual vertical seam 12 and having a bottom end 13 and a top 14, which latter is permanentlysecured in place by means of a seam 15. Said body is scored circum ferentially, as shownat 16 and 17 setting off a tearing strip 18 which is provided with a protruding tongue 19 adapted to be engaged by 'a key for removal of the strip to open the container. Arranged within the container and extending across the tearing strip 18 is a collar member 21, which is pref- 17 when-the latter is converted into a hinge cover, in manner which will now be described.

A hinge member, comprising a strip 23 of flexible material, such as thin gage brass, 'is

, disposed on the interior of the container between the collar 21 and the body 11, and is secured tosaid body, preferably by spot welding, at. points 24-and 25, disposed respectively beneath and above the scored area, or tearing strip 18.. As will be apparent from disposed and secured within the body, pro.- vides a hinge connection between the body ations required are simple and inexpensive and the'hinge is highly efficient in action.

stood from the foregoing description, and it willbe apparent that various changes may be an inspection of-Fig. 2, said strip 23, thus of the can and a flange 26 on the cover, which 7 ,is provided by removal of the tearing strip.

The parts used and the manufacturing ope're made in the form, construction and arrangement ofthe parts without departing from the 1 t sp1r1t: and scope of the nvention, or sacrificing all of its material advantages, the form hereinb'efore described being merely a preferred embodiment thereof. f

I claim:'

1 A can, comprising a body provided with 'score lines setting ofi an encircling tearing strip beneath the top, the body being in one [piece with said'tearing strip, a collar member arranged within the body and extending across the tearing strip, and aflexible hinge said tearing .strip.-

2. A can; comprising a body provided with across the tearing stripyand a flexible hinge member disposed between the collar and body and secured to the latter'beneath and above I said tearing strip.

l 3. A can, comprising a body provided with some lines setting 011' .an encircling tearing strip beneath the top, the body being in,one piece with said tearing strip, a collar member arranged within the body and extending across the tearing strip, and a hinge strip of severance extending about the body Setting one piece wlth said tearing strip, and a sepofi' a-tearing, strip portion, the body being in one piece Wlth said tearing strlp, and a separate strip of flexible material, secured to said body above and belowsaid lines of severance whereby to provide a hinge cover from the part of said can-above-the tearing strip portion When said tearing strip portion is removed.

5. An hermetically sealed can having lines of severance extending about the body setting off a tearing strip portion; the body being in part about the collar.

arate strip of flexible brass secured to said body above and below said lines of severance whereby to provide 'ahinge cover from the part ofsaid can above the tearing strip por tearing strip portion is retion When said moved. v

6. A cover for a vacuum sealed container hingedly united to the main body of the container by a separate flat one piece member of flexible material functioning asa'hinge, and a collar over which said cover opens and closes as the hinge is'flexed, said cover formed from the main body JOHN YOUNG.

part by severing said 

